Onigbogi Olanrewaju, Ojo Omobola Yetunde, Kinnunen Ulla-Mari, Saranto Kaija
Department of Community Health and Primary Care, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Department of Health and Social Management, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jan 28;13:1392709. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1392709. eCollection 2025.
Increased mobile phone use in Low- and Middle-Income countries (LMIC) has led to suggestions that health interventions using mobile phones can help solve some health problems. Vaccination has been shown to be an effective means of improving health outcomes. However, vaccination coverage in many LMIC has been generally low. The aim of this study was to synthesize evidence concerning the context, mechanisms, and outcome elements of mobile health interventions in improving vaccination coverage among children under 5 years of age in LMIC.
A search conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, CINAHL, Embase, and the Cochrane library led to 27 studies included in the final analysis out of 357 identified articles.
Twenty-one studies were from Africa, four from Asia and two studies were from Latin America and the Caribbean. Short Message Service (SMS) intervention was used exclusively in 21 studies while six studies used a combination of SMS and phone calls, and one intervention was based only on phone calls.
The results from most studies suggest an improved uptake of vaccination with mobile health interventions. However, there is a need for further research to quantify the impact of these interventions and determine the most effective strategies.
低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）手机使用的增加引发了这样的建议，即使用手机的健康干预措施有助于解决一些健康问题。疫苗接种已被证明是改善健康结果的有效手段。然而，许多低收入和中等收入国家的疫苗接种覆盖率普遍较低。本研究的目的是综合关于移动健康干预措施在提高低收入和中等收入国家5岁以下儿童疫苗接种覆盖率方面的背景、机制和结果要素的证据。
通过使用PubMed、科学网、ScienceDirect、CINAHL、Embase和Cochrane图书馆进行检索，在357篇已识别的文章中，有27项研究纳入了最终分析。
21项研究来自非洲，4项来自亚洲，2项研究来自拉丁美洲和加勒比地区。21项研究仅使用了短信服务（SMS）干预，6项研究使用了短信和电话相结合的方式，1项干预仅基于电话。
大多数研究结果表明，移动健康干预措施能提高疫苗接种率。然而，需要进一步研究来量化这些干预措施的影响，并确定最有效的策略。
